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    (1) The document discusses how to use the Threshold adjustment layer in Photoshop to identify the shadow and highlight areas in an image. (2) By dragging the Threshold slider left and right, the user can see the first black and white areas that appear, which indicate the shadow and highlight locations. (3) Color samplers are used to mark these locations so they can then be selected with the shadow/highlight eyedroppers in the Curves adjustment layer.

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    P H O TO S H O P F O R D I G I TA L P H O TO G R A P H E R S

    Day Thirteen
    Instructor:
    Scott Kelby

    Todays Lesson:
    Finding Where the Highlights & Shadows Are
    You can have Photoshop tell you exactly where the shadow
    and highlight areas are, so all you have to do is click.

    Key Concepts:
    In some photos, the shadow and highlight areas are really obvious, but in others its hard to know exactly where
    to click those eyedroppers. Luckily, Photoshop can show you exactly where those areas are. Heres how:
    (1) Go under the Adjustment Layer pop-up menu (at the bottom of the Layers palette) and choose Threshold.
    (2) When the Threshold dialog appears, drag the slider all the way to the left, until the screen turns white. As you
    drag back to the right, the first area that appears in black is the shadow area. To mark that area (so you remember later exactly where it is), hold the Shift key down, and your eyedropper turns into a color sampler (it looks
    like an eyedropper with a plus sign). Click that color sampler on that black area and it places a marker there
    (named #1).
    (3) Now drag the Threshold slider all the way to the right. Your photo will turn solid black. As you drag back to
    the left, the first area that appears in white is your Highlight. Hold the Shift key again, and click a Color Sampler
    on that spot (it will be named #2).
    (4) Now you can delete the Threshold Adjustment Layer (drag it to the trash), then open Curves and click the
    Shadow eyedropper on #1, the Highlight eyedropper on #2, and the midtone eyedropper on a medium gray.

    Keyboard Shortcuts Used:


    To switch from the regular Eyedropper tool to the Color Sampler tool, hold the Shift key.

    Additional Material Not Covered In Class:


    You can use a similar trick (invented by my buddy Dave Cross) for finding the midtones. Start by adding
    a new blank layer above your background layer. Go under the Edit menu and choose Fill, and in the Fill
    dialog, for Contents choose 50%, then click OK. Now change the Layer Blend mode of this layer to Difference. Now add that Threshold Adjustment Layerdrag the slider all the way to the right, and as you drag
    back to the left, the first area that appears in black is the neutral midtone areathats where you click the
    grey midtone eyedropper.

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